
James Commissar
Founder and president of The Comisar Collection and founding executive director of the Museum of Television, renowned pop culture curator of TV and film memorabilia.
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Sep 5, 2026
143 - The Cowardly Lion Costume with James Comisar
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14:10Joe ParisiHOST
Was this just on a hanger sitting in somebody's closet all these years? How did you get it? And what was its path from film to James Comisar?

James ComisarGUEST
As I mentioned, I would put ads in the classified sections of the Los Angeles Times looking for television or film artifacts.

James ComisarGUEST
And it wasn't long that I figured out that I got a lot of calls from people who thought that they had things for the 1939 production of The Wizard of Oz.

James ComisarGUEST
And I would get, you know, back in the day, you had a phone machine, leave your message at the tone beep, and I would get a fair number of calls of, hey, I have a lion costume from what I think is The Wizard of Oz, or I have a Tin Man costume.
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32:20Joe ParisiHOST
The neat thing about this television, movie, rock memorabilia, all of these pieces are essentially, as they say, a one of one piece.